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Originally Posted by kennyc
Does Texas not feel a sense of responsibility to the rest of the country?
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I'm sure that Texas (inasmuch as Texas is an entity) would think its educational choices are fine ones for the entire nation. They don't *require* students in other places from learning what they want taught, but they're not going to consider "what if someone else doesn't want that?" when making their decisions.
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Do you really feel that what children in TX learn should be different from what children in MN or AK learn?
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1) YES. Children in *each* region should have their education tailored to the reality the have to deal with.
2) That doesn't mean they should be learning lies, but there is no way to teach schoolchildren "all of history" or even "all of US history," even if we had an agreed-on set of facts for that. Children growing up in TX need to know the US/Mexico border history much more than children growing up in Alaska do. Children growing up in Alaska need to know how axial tilt works to makes sense of the world around them; children in Texas can just know "the angle of the earth makes the days a bit shorter in winter." Children in MN need to know how political alliances with Native tribes and French and Canadian settlers influenced the growth of the region. And so on.
3) The big issue here isn't whether TX can set its own standards, but whether they're using government money to promote a religious ideology. And that's not something that can be established without seeing details from the books in question.